Alessandro Volta was born on the 18th of February 1745, 270 years ago in Como, Italy.
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Volta
//ˈvoʊltə//
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Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960.
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[…][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.
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